Course summary

The BSc Sociology and Social Science degree is a timely, engaging, interdisciplinary course, which will equip you with invaluable knowledge and critical skills for the journey towards a just and sustainable future. Our distinctive degree explores the complex, shifting relationships between individuals and societies, with a focus on topics such as: crime; social and generational change; identity and community; inequality and exclusion; sustainability, justice and power; work and wellbeing. Through combining analytical thinking and applied research, Sociology and Social Science offers innovative, evidence-based and solution-focused approaches to both enduring questions about the human condition, and the super-wicked problems of our times. As such, the course will provide you with the analytical, digital and critical skills needed in a changing world and workplace. You will graduate with an array of attributes relevant both to a wide range of dynamic possible careers, and for active global citizenship. Location This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.